Tag: sexual selection

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 26, 2026

Categories
Arts
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Amazon Prime, Aristotle, Asa Gray, beauty, beauty problem, Charles Darwin, consciousness, cosmos, David Berlinski, Design Inference, documentary, Douglas Axe, flowers, Francis Crick, George MacDonald, George Steiner, Heraclitus, materialism, ocellus, Parts of Animals, peacock, peacock’s tail, peahen, planets, Richard Sternberg, Robert Sheldon, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sarah Salviander, sexual selection, solar system, stars, Stephen Meyer, Stratford Caldecott, The Descent of Man, The Flower-Angels, The Story of Everything, Timothy McGrew}

The Beauty Enigma: It “Seems to Be Reaching Out to Us”

_{David Klinghoffer
June 26, 2026

Arts, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

5}

The beauty of the cosmos and of nature generally can't be explained in materialist terms. Or more positively, they prompt an inference to design. Read More ›

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Date
March 11, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Darwin's House of Cards, Discovery Institute Press, evolution, evolutionary theory, Galileo Galilei, John C. Eccles, Karl Popper, Michael Flannery, natural selection, nature, offspring, parents, philosophy of science, purpose, sexual selection, Tom Bethell}

On Natural Selection, Popper’s Posthumous Gift

_{Science & Culture
March 11, 2026

Evolution, Philosophy of Science

2}

If philosopher of science Karl Popper wanted to leave a gift for those who came after to puzzle over and discuss, he couldn’t have chosen more astutely. Read More ›

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Date
March 7, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __edited, Australian National University, cleverness, females, fish, intelligence, males, octopuses, Research, sexual selection}

Did Sexual Selection Make Male Mosquitofish Really Smart?

_{Science & Culture
March 7, 2025

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

It’s worth considering that the fish who can solve mazes may also be better able to stay out of the way of predators than the ones who couldn’t. Read More ›

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Date
June 14, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, anesthesia, antibiotics, Charles Darwin, chimpanzees, cooking, evolution, Homo floresiensis, human mind, Neanderthals, Neil Thomas, Ota Benga, paleontologists, sexual selection, sterilization, teeth, tools}

Evolutionists Are Stymied by the Human Mind

_{Science & Culture
June 14, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

7}

Media love natural histories of the mind. Advocates have proposed mental illness, chimpanzees throwing excrement, and baby slings as the accidental spark. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
September 12, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Adam Sedgwick, Alfred Russel Wallace, animal breeding, architect, beauty, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Duke of Argyll, evolution, intelligent evolution, Jerry Fodor, Joseph Hooker, Man’s Place in the Universe, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, orangutan, Richard Dawkins, Richard Owen, Sarawak Law, sexual selection, teleology, teleonomy, The World of Life, William Paley, William Whewell}

For Alfred Russel Wallace, Natural Selection Opened the Door to Teleology

_{Michael Flannery
September 12, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

16}

Charles Darwin always recognized to some extent the problem of removing all vestiges of intelligent causation from evolutionary processes. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
December 2, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Tagged
, boys, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Darwin critics, evolution, girls, human behavior, ID the Future, materialism, natural selection, podcast, sexual selection, Social Darwinism, sociobiology, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, The Descent of Man, Victorian England, World War II}

Evolutionary Psychology: Checkered Past, Checkered Present

_{Jonathan Witt
December 2, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology

3}

If we want to effectively explain human behavior in all its messy richness, we would do well to look beyond this box of just-so stories. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
December 11, 2020

Categories
Arts
Bioethics
Tagged
, beauty, brain, Darwinian theory, devolution, E.O. Wilson, evolution, fiction, goodness, human nature, materialism, movies, mutations, natural selection, nobility, novels, sexual selection}

Darwin and the Devolution of Story

_{Jonathan Witt
December 11, 2020

Arts, Bioethics

3}

Darwinian materialism suggests that the impulse toward artistic creation is merely the human songbird attracting a mate. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
January 7, 2020

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, Apollo 8, beauty, butterflies, Carl Sagan, color, crystals, earth, Earthrise, flowers, insects, Mars, Moon, natural selection, Neptune, peacock, rainbows, sexual selection, solar system, surprise, Uranus, Venus}

Earth — The Mystery of Our Colorful Home

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
January 7, 2020

Physical Sciences

3}

Certainly, there is no logical reason why life should be wedded to the transcendental value of beauty. Read More ›

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Date
January 29, 2019

Categories
Anatomy
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, "survival of the fittest", aesthetics, Ann Gauger, anthropomorphism, beauty, biologists, Charles Darwin, Cinderella, Douglas Axe, evolutionary theory, Ferris Jabr, fitness, flowers, genes, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, love, materialism, Michael Behe, natural selection, ornithology, physiology, sexual selection, Undeniable (book), Zombie Science (book)}

Mission Impossible: Darwinizing Beauty

_{Science & Culture
January 29, 2019

Anatomy, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The ease of ascribing beauty to intelligent design contrasts with the impossibility of explaining its origin by material causes. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
January 28, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, animal kingdom, beauty, butterfly wings, cholesterol, Darwinian mechanism, David Snoke, law, literature, mind, music, mutations, natural selection, nutrition, sexual selection}

Here’s How to Tell if Scientists Are Exaggerating

_{Michael Behe
January 28, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

Here’s the simple test to tell if scientists are exaggerating wildly. Let’s call it: “The Principle of Comparative Difficulty.” Read More ›